Not everyone lives in the first world. Not everyone has a new computer. It is this sort of hubris that likely explains my feeling that personal computing has r

Not everyone lives in the first world. Not everyone has a new computer. It is this sort of hubris that likely explains my feeling that personal computing has regressed in many ways for the average individual over the recent years. I'm not talking about the hacker who can run surf+i3 on their cyberdeck, I'm talking about the person with an 8-year old computer bought on sale or a 4-year old smartphone.